The Growth Weekly - The Rise of the "Growth CMO", how Disney predicted Netflix, Cloud Computing Predictions for 2018, AI-based super assistants, how to follow up with innovation and Sophia, the first Robot citizen in the world.

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The Growth Weekly - The Rise of the "Growth CMO", how Disney predicted Netflix, Cloud Computing Predictions for 2018, AI-based super assistants, how to follow up with innovation and Sophia, the first Robot citizen in the world.

Welcome to another Growth Weekly. The best growth reads we found on the web this week, packed for you.

In this edition: The Rise of the “Growth CMO”, how Disney predicted Netflix, Cloud Computing Predictions for 2018, AI-based super assistants, how to follow up with innovation and Sophia, the first Robot citizen in the world.

This week, news broke that Disney is in talks to purchase 21st Century Fox.
Consolidation of the two entertainment megapowers comes at a strategic time
for Disney, who announced back in August that they’ll be ending their
content partnership with Netflix in 2019.

In the context of these moves, in this post we look at Disney’s answer to
the Netflix question.

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google and Microsoft will capture 76% of all cloud platform revenue in 2018, expanding to 80% by 2020. These and many other fascinating insights are from Forrester’s Predictions 2018: Cloud Computing Accelerates Enterprise Transformation Everywhere

In the 2013 movie Her, a virtual personal assistant named Samantha quickly evolves from merely competent to awesomely so. Rather than merely scheduling meetings, Samantha becomes a life coach, cajoling the main character, Theodore, a writer, to publish his letters and to move on with his divorce. That movie is science fiction, but those who…

Public perception of artificial intelligence technology, in 2017, seems to lie somewhere at the intersection of existential fear and cautious optimism. Yet there’s a growing movement of people who believe AI is crucial to the evolution of our species. These people aren’t outsiders or outliers — they’re actually directing research on the cutting edge at companies like Google.